The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-02

day. He is as strong physically and mentally
as he ever was, and has intention of retiring
from the active practice OF his profession. He
wishes TO die In the harness.
MISS SARAH F. SMILEY, well known for her
| Bible readings. thrown from a carriage at
Saratoga last week Her collar bone was broken,
/ and she received other severe injuries
| OMAHA World: In organizing a ''conversa-
tional society," the young ladies of Council Bluffs
have filed long felt want. Women are lovely
creatures. but their habitual silence is oppres-
sIve.
The Princess Olympia Bariatinski is trusted
agent of the Car. She is now in Berlin on
confidential mission to Emperor William The
| Gar evidently believes that woman can keep
secret.
THE Bastile OF 1889 is being faithfully
erected in honor of the exhibition Of 1889 in
Paris, at the junction Of avenues Suffren and
La Motto Piquet. 1t will be opened to the pub
lie next June.
BISHOP Fl. B. WHIPPLE, of Minnesota, has
long locks like Buffalo Bill. and knows a great
deal about the Indians in his section. He speaks
several of their dialects. and has great in
fuence over them
PROFESSOR GNEIsT, the celebrated German
writer and thinker. in a recent lecture
women held that it the position women
necessarily occupied in the home, from the
princess down the wife of the poorest la
porer, that constituted their real equality with
men.
THE tremendous pressure being brought on
Mr.. Spurgeon to induce him to reconsider his de-
termination to retire from the Baptist Union
will not succeed. Mr.. Spurgeon hesitated
long time He has well considered the conse-
quences of his decision and will abide by it
His congregation unanimously support him.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD said to a Denver re-
porter that Cleveland's administration had been
satisfactory" though he had not evidenced
any great craftsmanship. nor has he done any
thing to encourage the interests of the party in
detail" Asked if he was civil service re-
former. the ex-senator responded, emphatlcally,
''No, sir, am Democrat"
THE gold mines of Australia continue to be
very productive. Some of them more than
two thousand feet in depth and many will be
sunk even lower than that in the near future.
This is contrary to the predictions of old mining
experts who said many years ago that no gold
would ever be found in Australia at depth
greater than hundred feet.
NJ. PAvLosKY in his recollection of Turgenetf
relates that once at Victor Hugo's house some
one remarked that their hosts name should be
given to that street mot street alone" cried
another, SHOULD be named for Victor Hugo. but
all Paris should be named after him." Hugo.
who present, heard these words, and re-
Piled THAT will come in time"
THOMAS MOONLIGHT, Governor of Wyoming
Territory, has become a good deal of a swell
since accepting his present position 1t is said
cent IN the world, and would have been glad OF
a position Waterman. There Is legend IN
Kansas to the effect that Moonlight was found
ling and received his peculiar name because he
picked up doorstep one moonlight night
when he was baby.
CHIEF-JUsTIcE WAITE, at the age of seventy
two, is the most energetic member of the United
States Supreme Court. He is the only one OF
the justices who has not awaited himself of the
act of Congress giving him private secretary
at 81, SEQ yesr. Il don't want one." says the
Chief iustice; he'd be in the way" Waite is a
hard-headed practical man. who reads nothing
but law books, works twelve hours day, and
has little or no imaginative power.
A LONDON sporting paper called the Referee
gravely makes the statement that the Wild West
show is responsible for tremendous" an exc
dus--the adjective is the Referees own-of
English lads who bound to be cowboys that
detectives stationed at Liverpool to inter
cept runaways. Some of the bloodthirsty youths
who have been stopped had from one to four
loaded revolvers taken from them. while their
trunks have been found filed with iariats.
NEARLY all of the wealthy colored men in the
District of Columbia have made their money out
of real estate The wsalthiest among them is
probably John F. Cook, the collector of taxes.
He purchased large lot at the corner of Six
teenth aud streets when it was worth only
few cents square foot. 1t is now worth small
fortune at current prices. Mr.. Cook lives in a
small white house this property. He refuses
to sell out and the value of his ground Is IL
THE University of Pennsylvania has just re-
ceived from the family of the late George Biddle
the large collection of English and American
court reports purchased for $50, 900 from ex-
Attorney general Benjamin Harris Brewster. oy
whom they were collected. The gift is to be
known as the Gorge Biddle Memorial Library.
The collection consists of between 5000 and
5000 volumes. and includes the reports of the
Supreme Court of the United States and each
State in the Union. The reports were selected
by Mr. Brewster with great care, and their value
was estimated between $4,000 and $40, 600.
SIR RICHARD BUTTONS health seems to have
broken down, and he will retire from the British
consulate at Trieste and return to England.
Even Mr. Labouchere, in Truth. comedies that
traveller and scholar full pay for the rest of his
years an army officer in India, and has been in
years. in almost every country in the world.
now a valuable part of the standard geograph-
ical and chronological literature. and his services
in directing the material development of Eng
lands colonial possessions have been valuable
beyond estimation.
WHEN death cuts down weed,
Then death is kind;
When death cuts down flower
All death is blind.
American Magazine.
SOME love the hand that is tapered and thin,
And some the hand that is plump;
Rutan ind of haO will win